Aryan Pasha is an Indian lawyer and bodybuilder best known for being India’s first transgender bodybuilder.
Wiki/Biography
Aryan Pasha was born as “Nyla” (age 29; as of 2020) on Thursday, December 5, 1991, in Delhi, India. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Aryan Pasha as a child
He graduated from St Andrews Scotland High School in Derry. He wanted to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delhi University but was rejected. He then attempted admission to the Bar Council of India-affiliated Rizvi College of Law and the University of Bombay, where he obtained a law degree. At the age of 19, he underwent gender reassignment surgery at a hospital in NCR. Talking about his transformation, he said:
After transitioning, I became very comfortable with my body and it started to show in everything I did. I was always an average student, but after changing schools, I topped my class in Class 12.”
He then identified himself as “male” in all documents and was given a new name – Aryan.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
family and race
Parents and siblings
His father Javed Akhtar Pasha is a former geologist and director of Pasha Properties Pvt. His mother’s name is Payal Pasha.
Aryan Pasha’s parents
He had three sisters: Ayesha Pasha, Vidi Pasha and Ayman Pasha.
Aryan Pasha with his mother and sisters
Relationships and Wife
At 23, he met transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi at a queer conference in Delhi and the two became friends. He subsequently dated three girls, but his relationships did not go well. In 2018, he started dating Lakshmi, and in 2019, the two got engaged and married. He is twelve years younger than Lakshmi.
Aryan Pasha and Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi
Profession
Aryan Pasha is a practicing lawyer who worked for the NGO Multiple Action Research Group (MARG), providing legal training to other social activists. He is an advocate for inclusivity and equality and continues to push the government to support inclusive sporting events – something that is generally lacking in Indian and international events. In 2017, he decided to participate in bodybuilding competitions and started preparing for the men’s bodybuilding event “Musclemania India”. Since this is a natural bodybuilding competition, competitors are not allowed to take hormone supplements, including testosterone. He told organizers that, as a transgender man, he needed to take regular doses of testosterone as part of hormone replacement therapy after surgery, and decided he would just skip the final dose before the competition. By participating in the Musclemania Contest in 2018, he became the first transgender person from India to compete in a bodybuilding competition, finishing second in the men’s category.
Aryan Pasha in Muscle Mania Contest
Subsequently, he participated in other bodybuilding competitions such as the 2019 International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (IBFF), the 2019 International Health Sports and Fitness Festival (IHFF) and the 2020 IFBB Professional League.
Aryan Pasha participates in the 2019 International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (IBFF)
fact
- His ancestors reportedly belonged to Türkiye.
- He used to dress up as a boy at home and even switched schools because he didn’t want to wear a girl’s uniform. Because he always dressed like a boy, everyone, including his friends, thought he was a boy.
- Aryan said he was a very lonely and depressed man who was suicidal while growing up.
- Aryan’s mother helped him a lot with his gender issues. The first person to realize he had gender issues was his mother. His mother told his father about the incident, but he ignored it, saying it was just a phase. His mother led his father to believe that he was experiencing gender issues. In fact, when he was 16, his mother told him (Aryan) about sex reassignment surgery.
- He was an athlete as a child, playing multiple sports in school and being a national ice skating champion.
- He was also a member of the school’s boys basketball team, but had previously had to hide his identity. No one on his team knew he was a girl except his coach.
- Sometime in 2014, he started weight training to enhance his lean frame. Slowly it became his hobby and then his passion.
- Initially, he wanted to compete in an all-trans bodybuilding competition called Trans FitCon in Atlanta, USA. However, he failed to get a visa and started preparing for Indian Muscle Mania. He competes against men because most sporting events don’t have separate categories for transgender participants.
- In 2019, he appeared in sports nutrition brand MuscleBlaze’s video titled Naam Hai Ziddi (Part 2), which featured sports athletes.
- In September 2020, the central government established the National Transgender Commission, which was constituted under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and consists of five community members and five NGO experts (for a term of 3 years) . He is one of five experts on the committee.
- He is an avid dog lover and owns a pet dog.
Aryan Pasha and his pets
- He has four tattoos. He has the word “LA” engraved on his right chest; something written on his right arm (which reads: I owe everything I am to my mom); two on the inside and outside of his left forearm tattoo.
Aryan Pasha Tattoo
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